Makandi Gitonga

Employment is by definition a contractual exchange of labour for compensation. Gen z’s refusal to romanticise underpaid or unpaid work is not laziness but a response to an economy where wages lag behind the cost of living and “opportunity” is too often used to disguise

Yet again, only when women run countries do we see real issues being adequately tackled. Fake food, adulterated food, junk food, basically anything that’s not available naturally needs to be completely banned going forward. Nobody had this many health issues all at once ever before. Every country should be run by women just as an experiment if nothing else of just how different the world could possibly be.

I need religious people to try &limit your beliefs to yourselves in all aspects of life. If your religion tells you that you can't get an abortion then don't get one by all means but don't impose those beliefs on everybody! 👍🏾

What I love about education is that it reveals what Kenyans think. The replies to this post reveal that most Kenyans don't mind education inequality as long as their own kids are not the victims. That's why Kenyans accepted CBC. The government told us "your kid will become a computer scientist because that's their talent, and everybody else's kid will go to TVET to become a carpenter, because that's their talent." But we didn't realize the same promise was being made to everybody. It's like someone having affairs promising each lover that he is the only one. The only way to see the lie is for all those lovers to come together and realize they are being conned. As long as Kenyans don't come together and care about the education received by their neighbor's kid, we're going to have a broken school system.

Of prophets and complications. — Prof. Lukoye Atwoli

A lot of people believe that abortions help women skirt accountability. They think a pregnancy should be the end of the line for you. That babies are “consequences”

Why it is advisable to seek Medical Opinion. This statement is not entirely accurate and can be dangerous infact. 1. For a person with that 'toad tummy' which signifies insulin resistance - the foods depicted below are VERY rich in sugars and carbs. You will worsen the 'toad tummy' and die of type 2 diabetes. You will be safer eating protein and fat rich diets like eggs, meat and of course fibre. FYI beans is not a source of proteins, it is carbohydrate. The counter argument that fruits are complex carbs hence wont spike insulin by much does not defeat the argument that proteins, fats and fibre are will give BETTER results of the intention is to cut down 'toad tummy.' The tragedy with sausages is in their caloric content and additives - avoid. SC @NelsonHavi i would have shared my paybill number but this being a matter of public interest...

When you sexualize a conversation early, you’re not just flirting or testing the waters. You’re fundamentally reframing what kind of interaction this is. And the other person has to decide, right then, whether they’re willing to operate inside that frame. If they were interested in you as a person, curious about your thoughts, drawn to your energy, maybe even attracted but not ready to make it the center of everything yet, you’ve just asked them to skip about seven steps. Most people won’t tell you that you’ve done this. They’ll just drift. They’ll match your energy for a bit out of politeness, or awkwardness, or because they’re trying to figure out if they misread you. But the curiosity is gone. You’ve answered a question they weren’t asking yet. I think this happens because we confuse attraction with urgency. Like, if you feel it, you have to do something about it immediately, or the moment dies. But real attraction doesn’t actually work like that. It builds. It breathes. It happens in the margins of normal conversation, in the way someone laughs at your joke, or the fact that they remembered something you said three days ago, or the split second where you both go quiet and it doesn’t feel empty. There’s this idea that if someone’s really into you, they’ll match your sexual energy right away. That anything else is just performance or playing games. But that assumes everyone experiences desire on the same timeline, in the same way. Some people feel attraction as a slow burn. It starts as intrigue, then comfort, then one day they look at you differently and suddenly it’s there. For them, leading with sex isn’t authentic, it’s disorienting. It doesn’t feel like honesty. It feels like a test they didn’t know they were taking. When you sexualize too soon, you’re collapsing all of that into a single transaction. You’re saying, “I want to know if this is going somewhere now.” And maybe it was. But now they have to wonder if you were ever interested in them, or just interested in what they represent. The fumble isn’t that you expressed desire. It’s that you made desire the whole conversation before there was anything else to hold it up.

In your late 20's and early 30's, as a young woman you will face a strong urge to become conservative. This will be reinforced by society throwing useless expectations on your life, it is important that you commit to being a woman on your own terms!

Outsourcing labor is revolutionary. We all have jobs because someone decided to outsource labor. It’s economic empowerment. What we should be discussing is fair wages and making sure domestic workers are paid reasonably.

Oh really!! The loss of children in Gaza has also been a deeply personal experience for Palestinian mothers. Kambua should understand this as it has been part of her personal brand and story. She has no business promoting the Israel.

God forbid I find anything credible or worth defending from a 64 year old man who married a 17 year old

Like I have always said, rape and sexual assault are not crimes of sex. They are crimes of power and control, sex is just the weapon used. This woman is the president of Mexico, yet a man groped her in public in an attempt to reduce her and let her understand that he can still exert power over her. He didn't do this because he was horny, he did this to reduce her. I wonder how her security detail allowed this to happen but I am glad she is pressing charges

In this entire uproar about Maraga saying he’ll have 50% women in his government, it’s not even the men’s reactions that are troubling me. Wamama??? What kind of Kool aid are you huns on? These freedoms you’re enjoying today weren’t handed to you by men. THINK.

RIP Bob Collymore. You would have hated Peter Ndegwa.

Also, it's not women who receive dowry/bride price. It's their families. And historically, women have been forced to stay in abusive marriages because their families already used up the bride price. Juzi tu Maasai brothers were beating their sister because of this issue

It is not @dkmaraga who requires that government should be 50% female, it is the Constitution. And demand for "merit" when it is women's turn to be considered is just a structural pretext for perpetuating men's mediocrity in public spaces.

Hmmm thanks for putting words to my feelings! Meeting gender quotas isn't synonymous with foregoing merit. In fact there are tools to ensure the latter doesn't happen. In current parliament those tools aren't employed. At all.